Robert Kaplan,
Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of
New York (CUNY), is the former Director of Writing
and Communications, and now works as a writing consultant. He is responsible for editing
the Center’s grant applications, project reports, publications,
curricula, manuals, presentations, and any other project materials;
he also assists with the production of all significant internal and
external documents. He conducts workshops on writing concept papers,
abstracts, literature reviews, and other types of writing and research
used in public health. Prior to joining the Center in 2003, Mr. Kaplan
worked in the Hunter College Program in Urban
Public Health, helping faculty to develop writing-based
public health curricula and assisting undergraduate and graduate students
to develop the critical writing, reading, and thinking skills needed
by public health professionals.

Krauss, B., O'Day, J.,
Godfrey, C., Rente, K., Freidin, L., Bratt, E., et al. [Kaplan, R.]
(2006). Who wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence and
an emerging single standard among adolescent women. Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, 1087 (November), 56-73. (please note
that this is now listed in the pubs as "In Press."

Minian, N., Rente,
R., O Day, J., Krauss, B., Kaplan, R., & Bratt, E. (2006, July).
Poster presentation. Redefining common perceptions of parenthood in
young men and women. NIMH International Conference on the Role of
Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, San Juan, Puerto
Rico.

Aledort, N., Bratt,
E., Leonard, N., Gwadz, M., Kaplan, R., & Krauss, B. (2005, July).
Poster presentation. What youth want from parents regarding HIV VCT,
and what providers don’t know: Discussing the disconnect. The
National Institute of Mental Health Annual International Research
Conference on the Role of the Families in Preventing and Adapting
to HIV/AIDS, Brooklyn, NY.

Welch, C., Rente,
K., O’Day, J., Godfrey, C., Krauss, B., Minian, N., Kaplan,
R., Kapungu, C., Tolou-Shams, M., & Sturdivant, A. (2004, July).
Poster presentation. The role of friends as family in providing life
direction and preventing HIV. The National Institute of Mental Health
Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in
Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, GA.